I really liked the movie, saw it yesterday. It made me think about things and hit me pretty hard (the directors cut). I didn't find it offensive at all. Must just be me **shrugs**

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I really liked it, i have it on DVD, i like the part when he goes back in time to when he was a boy and tells the guy not to touch him or the guys daughter again, i thought it was really powerful, and i liked the film in general too

Just watched it last night. What a huge mistake. It was beyond triggering for me. I went into a kind of shock from it. I'm fighting the urge to dissociate now just typing this.

I am surprised that some of you liked it. I cannot judge this movie whether I liked it or not...I was way too off the deep end from the emotional effects it had on me to even have that sort of objectivity.

I started watching this tonight. It's really powerful. The warnings are valid. If you have open issues it might overwhelm you. It is very raw. My childhood was very raw. The stories need to be told.

It shows the power of flashbacks and "feely - touchy" flashbacks associated with strong dissociation. They are really like that. The guy has DID from having kiddie porn done when he was little. He calls them memory blackouts. They are DID episodes. I had that done to me.

So much can go on and parents don't have a clue. Then they have to put up with a kid who is almost disabled by dissociation and anger and sexual emotions. I know. I've been there.

It seems to be more of a fantasy or science fiction than a reporting or dramatization of child abuse and its effects. Yes it does show a lot of potential effects but they are in the realm of the paranormal.

How many times have wished you could go back and undo the abuse you experienced? That is the main thought in this movie.

The leading character somehow has the ability to revise his personal history and that of others by having kind of a super flashback in which he can re-enact what happened to him. He keeps doing this several times until he is stillborn. Have you ever felt so angry with your existence and what you went through that you wished you were never born?

In the early part of the film he went through a kind of kiddie porn abuse which twisted his whole life and that of others. This resulted in his having DID (dissociative identity disorder). He writes his story in a journal. But later, after reading this journal, he is able to go back and "unmake" the event and other events in order to neutralize the horrendous consequences. At this point, the story states that he was 7 years old. This was not realistic because the boy actor doing the part looked about 11 years old.

I felt it necessary to analyze the movie to nullify the depressing effects it had on me. That has been my adaptation to my own life history. To understand others and why they did what they did is an initial step toward healing.

The movie caused me to wonder about what happened to other children who were involved in the abusive events I experienced as a child. That has largely been beyond my grasp and maybe it's something I shouldn't take very seriously.

But if we live in a realm in which the paranormal can be experienced, then even the bad stuff we experienced becomes meaningless. We can't really change history. But we can change the effect it has on us as we modify our own attitude toward what we went through and the people involved with us. I believe that this thought is central to the idea of forgiveness.

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